Page 2 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1975
Ombudsman
Ticket policy: our
By ROXIE HEARN
Assistant Editor
A couple of weeks ago, The Bat
talion started a new Ombudsman
reader service. As “ombudsman” I
field questions, complaints or com
ments about the service of the
newspaper.
This column will be a discussion
of some of the calls I receive
throughout the week.
The majority of the calls have
come from students who dislike the
new ticket distribution system.
At least three of them objected to
a statement made in the Sept. 25
issue of The Battalion in an article
entitled “Senate alters ticket dis
tribution . . . again.”
Our writer stated that the altering
proposal included a recommenda
tion that students taking non
student dates be restricted to either
endzone or track seats. This state
ment was incorrect. The proposal
did not include such a recommenda
tion.
There were two schools of
thought within the committee draw
ing up the proposals. A minority of
the group felt the above recom
mendation would be best. That
way, all season ticket holders would
be assured of a good seat: they
wouldn’t be bumped around to the
endzone because of an abundance of
non-student dates in the mid
section.
However, the majority of the
group felt additional seating, either
bleacher or track should be opened
up if regular seating ran short. Their
recommendation did not include
any restrictions on non-student
dates.
It was this latter recommendation
that should have been recorded in
the story. For further muddling the
distribution issue, we apologize.
Another complaint repeated sev
eral times was parking. Lot 7, I was
told, had many more stall' spaces
then it had staff to fill them. When
we looked into this, we found that
there were between 65 and 70
spaces that could be returned to
student use. The situation was cor
rected by campus police.
I also get a number of calls on our
coverage of campus groups.
The most recent of these com
plaints came from a professor in the
Aerospace Engineering Depart
ment. He felt our statement calling
the Texas A&M job-placement ser
vice “The best kept secret on cam
pus” was incorrect.
“Actually,” he wrote, “the best
kept secret, as far as your paper is
concerned, is how well Aerospace
Engineering students have distin
guished themselves in nationwide
design contests.”
This is an age-old problem: which
organizations and which press re
leases will get coverage. We don’t
maliciously neglect clubs and or
ganizations, there are just too many
More on tickets
Non-students complain
Editor:
We are protesting the recom
mendation in the Date Ticket Re
solution which restricts the seating
of students with nonstudent dates to
the track and bleacher seats or to the
Kyle Field horseshoe. We do not
know how many members of the se
nate are married, but they should
realize that this recommendation
discriminates against the student
whose husband or wife does not at
tend classes at A&M. This penalizes
the student for being married and
not having the option to choose a
student for the “date.
We have no objection to the re
solution concerning odd tickets or to
the Group Tickets Resolution but
do believe that the recommenda
tion concerning the seating of non
student dates alters basic tenets of
this ticket system sufficiently to
warrant, upon request, a full refund
for the unused portion of a student’s
season ticket book if this resolution
is passed. phil Pearson
Peggy Pearson
This and the following letter
are two of many we have re
ceived concerning football tic
ket distribution. Much of the
problem is because of an incor
rect statement made by The
Battalion. For an explanation,
see the above “Ombudsman”
column. — Ed.
Editor:
For years the 12th man has been
the backbone of A&M. Now that the
Ags are winners, former students (of
the fair weather variety) are crawl
ing out of the woodwork. This is
fine, except the students are the
ones who have to suck it up. I
started out in the horseshoe four
years ago, and I don’t particularly
want to finish this year in the same
place.
I am married and have attended
A&M with very few complaints. But
to think that my wife and I might
have to sit in the horseshoe because
she is a nurse and is thus a non
student date, is too much to handle.
Danny Eastman
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Cbe Battalion
error
to give them all coverage.
Each night we receive at least 60
news releases about newsworthy
campus events. We’re limited by
space and can include only those
items that we feel affect the most
students or generate the most in
terest.
No doubt the Irving Home Town
Club is important, but its meetings
just don’t have the far-reaching ef
fects that Board of Regents’ meet
ings do. -
If you have any questions, com
plaints or comments, call 845-2611
between 6 and 11 p.m. Monday
through Thursday, or write “Om
budsman,” 216 Reed McDonald
Building, Texas A&M University.
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